Children receiving the blood

[Paul_W]

The problem is that too many schools teach zero tolerance. A 12th-grader who brings a single aspirin to school can be suspended for drug abuse, under most school guidelines. (If the child needs one, he or she must obtain it from the school nurse.)

It’s not surprising, therefore, that a child might think that a single sip of consecrated wine is also drug abuse.

You need to discuss the underlying issues, the reasons for certain rules, and the fact that some rules don’t make sense, especially when written by Politically-Correct liberals.

 

[Brendan]

Drugs often have good uses, medicinal value.

Most cough remedies have some alcohol in them, but we take them in prescribed doses for our health.

The same is true for the Eucharist. It has certain accidental properties that are drug like. But that is by design, Christ personally chose those accidents.

But we recieve the Eucharist for our spiritual health.

(if you know a Catholic doctor, you can always have them write out a prescription too )

<4tbs Blood of Savior - taken as needed

 

[Mernpap]

Isn’t the lesson in this thread that parents are responsible for the education of their children? It seems that good parents sending their children to good schools can have unforeseen problems. In this case, a second grader is so convinced that alcohol consumption is bad that I am sure she questions her parents’ use of alcohol and has been taught indirectly to disrespect their judgement on the subject. Hopefully, parents in similar situations can be acutely alert and counteract schools’ teaching children to disrespect their parents. Better yet, parents can teach their children at home and not put them in the hands of educators with non-Catholic religious agendas, including secular humanism.

I would suggest that the parents in this particular case speak directly with the child’s teacher about the suggestion to “pretend” while participating in any religious rite approved by the parents. This is intolerable behavior on the part of the educator and needs to be addressed. The teacher can then apologize to the student personally and reassure the student that the error is the teacher’s, not the religion’s.

 

[Sara_Bickley]

Zero-tolerance drug education is really getting out of hand, isn’t it? When I was in the sixth grade, our DARE officer told us that he’d recently stopped drinking beer because he thought it made him a hypocrite. I’m certain I’m not the only one who failed to see a conflict between discouraging illegal, excessive, or underage substance use, and using a licit substance in a legal and moderate way. :banghead: